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Juniper Lake Fitzgerald || ArdentGrove
@ardentgrove.bsky.social
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|| Artist & Illustrator.
|| Author of Queer Dark Fantasy & Gothic tales.
|| https://ardentgrove.carrd.co/
|| patreon.com/ArdentGrove
|| #art #writing #oc #fantasy
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Juniper Lake Fitzgerald || ArdentGrove @ardentgrove.bsky.social · Oct 18
Omg new faces scootin into bsky! 👀

Hi! I’m Juniper, an author of queer dark fantasy.
I also draw quite a bit & am hopelessly artistic 🤷‍♀️ Ask me about my useless degree & forty five random talents 🥴

I’m happy to meet new folks, so feel free to say hi back! 👋👋

🌈📚
ardentgrove.bsky.social
Unfortunate to be working on multiple art pieces that I can’t reveal till next year 😭😭
November 20, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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benkuchera.bsky.social
They make games and movies like they used to. So many of them. Same with books.

But the mechanisms you learned about them were totally gutted and changed to only amplify shit that's already popular.

It's still there! You're just mostly on your own to find it.
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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anotherindiewriter.com
Do you like vampires? I know people who write them.

@ardentgrove.bsky.social has vampires who like to take their shirts off (allegedly)

ardentgrove.itch.io

@tallimorgan.bsky.social also has vampires. They do vampire things

tallimorgan.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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anotherindiewriter.com
Alright. Today is my birthday (and tbh it has sucked so far). But. I promised a thread of books by friends. And I am going to make good on that.

Please consider buying books from friends today. Thread below. Storefronts may vary. I'm just linking where I know the books are.
November 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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chucktingle.bsky.social
I REALLY LIKE WRITING IT IS COOL AND FUN
November 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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bmwillows.bsky.social
Hey, guess what else: Preorders are officially open for THE HOWLING DARK, my scifi fantasy novel about fugitive werewolf brothers on a perilous journey home across a post-apocalyptic landscape! 🐺🌓

PREORDER: amazon.com/dp/B0G1KFVKVM
ADD ON GR/SG: thehowlingdark.carrd.co
Kindle pre-order promo graphic for THE HOWLING DARK, coming mid or late 2026. Centered in the graphic is the placeholder cover for the book, featuring the protagonist looking with a neutral expression into the camera, holding a spear. He's backlit and framed by leafless branches. He is a 22-year-old white man with long black and white hair, one brown eye and one blue, and a scar over his left eye. He's wearing a parka with a fur-lined hood over a tan sweater. Sylvain is an eclipse-born werewolf who knows neither his bestial form nor the post-nuclear wilds his kind hail from. Raised on the orbital research station Zodiac, he’s grown accustomed to a life of peaceful predictability. Though fantasies of visiting his birthplace may be out of reach due to medical restrictions, he has a loving boyfriend and all of his essential needs are met. What more could he want?In the opinion of his elder brother, the answer is: everything.Believing them abducted as children, Illia has always sworn to someday return with his brother to the mountains they were taken from. And when a peculiar turn in Sylvain’s health brings to light an ugly truth, someday becomes now—whether Sylvain is ready for it or not.Soon enough, the brothers find themselves fugitives on the planet’s surface, pursued by the government and bloodthirsty huntsmen, and under the unexpected guidance of the rebel Sundogs. All that lies between them and home is miles of unfamiliar countryside, toxic wastelands, a parasitic garden of death . . . and the question of how much they’re willing to risk in order to get there.
November 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
ardentgrove.bsky.social
IS THIS REAL LIFE
Screenshot of text that says: the end, the modern Mythos continuum
November 14, 2025 at 7:56 AM
ardentgrove.bsky.social
TMMC HAS REACHED 100K. Oh my god it’s happening. It’s happening.
November 13, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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uldahstreetrat.bsky.social
"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it
October 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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rosebdraws.bsky.social
"--what recourse do you have... but to live?"

#frankenstein @realgdt.bsky.social
dip pen and ink drawing of frankenstein's monster from GDT's new film, colored digitally. he looks forlornly down at a bright autumn leaf
November 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
ardentgrove.bsky.social
Frankenstein. That’s all. 😭💕
November 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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ardentgrove.bsky.social
Excuse me, is this allowed
Detail of a sketch of Calysto and Python kissing as Aeris watches
November 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
ardentgrove.bsky.social
This is the first time I've ever written someone getting kicked in the balls and it's fucking fun to write, lmao. Villain insta-nerfed. (he deserves it, dw)
November 6, 2025 at 1:52 AM
ardentgrove.bsky.social
Excuse me, is this allowed
Detail of a sketch of Calysto and Python kissing as Aeris watches
November 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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ashcapes.bsky.social
Here we go!!

Revealing the new cover for 'Crossings' - art by krma and text design by Christina P :)

I'm thrilled with both! This cover is what I had in mind for the book way back when I first released it 10 years ago - it just took me a while to reach this moment :)
In darkness, a young woman stands before headlights of a ute. She's wearing a shirt and jeans and a troubled expression, but the main focus of the image is the kangaroo head she holds.
November 3, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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wolfskulljack.bsky.social
The Siren-
In a witchy Lilith mood
My art, digital. A women with blood on her face and tattoos sits in the water
November 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
ardentgrove.bsky.social
Cleaning up my story for a spooky anthology that’s in the works 🤭 I can wait to announce this project soon!
November 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM
ardentgrove.bsky.social
Something something Python meme.
Meme format depicting Python from The Modern Mythos Anomaly that says: IT'S NOTHING A BLUNT AND SOME NICOTINE AND TWO PINTS OF BLOOD AND A HEAD INJURY AND JERKING MYSELF OFF AND WALKING INTO THE SUN CANT FIX
November 1, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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ardentgrove.bsky.social
🎃🧜‍♂️ Happy Halloween from a sailor and his lucky catch! ⛵🎃

Ohkai & Loba are from my dark fantasy series The Fifth Yanai
Ohkai & Loba from The Fifth Yanai in Halloween costumes, dressed as a sailor and a merman. They are lounging together on a couch, mid-conversation.
October 31, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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merriam-webster.com
The word is a vampire.
October 31, 2025 at 9:07 PM
ardentgrove.bsky.social
🎃🧜‍♂️ Happy Halloween from a sailor and his lucky catch! ⛵🎃

Ohkai & Loba are from my dark fantasy series The Fifth Yanai
Ohkai & Loba from The Fifth Yanai in Halloween costumes, dressed as a sailor and a merman. They are lounging together on a couch, mid-conversation.
October 31, 2025 at 6:33 PM
ardentgrove.bsky.social
Can I finish this Halloween drawing before and/or by tomorrow? Only my wrist longevity can tell.
October 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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elizmanderson.com
literally me screaming at every single program offering to write things, summarize things, etc etc, via genAI

fuck OFF I didn't ask for this!! I like using my brain, actually, even if it's hard!! it's good for me and I like it!!
noethematt.bsky.social Matthew Noe 🔜 MICE @noethematt.bsky.social · 26d
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM
ardentgrove.bsky.social
Well 😂 it depends. Traditionally I’ve done a drawing of Ohkai and Loba in costumes for about five years now? They always go for ‘low effort but matching/complimenting’.
Here’s a few of the past ones!
You may have to wait till next week to see what outfits they picked for this year 🤭 #LateNightWrite
Ohkai and Loba from The Fifth Yanai dressed as cowboys for Halloween Ohkai and Loba from The Fifth Yanai dressed as a bee and a flower for Halloween Ohkai and Loba from The Fifth Yanai dressed as Calysto and Python from The Modern Mythos Anomaly for Halloween
October 26, 2025 at 3:06 AM
ardentgrove.bsky.social
Yes! But I tend to incorporate more horror-adjacent elements to larger stories rather than strictly horror, as I find that more interesting to write. I mean, my main genre of interest is dark fantasy 🤷‍♀️ I like the spooks #LateNightWrite
blackbirb.bsky.social Blackbird @blackbirb.bsky.social · 29d
#LateNightWrite Alright. It’s getting to be around that time... Do you or have you ever written horror? If not, do you sometimes inject any spoopy vibes into you non-horror work?

Quote or reply below using the hashtag!
Simple canva graphic displaying the same prompt as the body of the post.
October 26, 2025 at 2:59 AM